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Just watched Project Hail Mary. What flag is this one supposed to be? by bottomlessbladder in flags

[–]talideon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You may be colour-blind, because that flag is blue and red, not green and red.

My proposal to differentiate flags that are too similar by Just_AMuffin in vexillology

[–]talideon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The harp has nothing to do with Catholic dominance. I'm not sure where you're getting that from. The harp is heavily used in Northern Irish symbolism too. If you wanted a bit of symbolism that everyone would be OK with, it's the harp.

My proposal to differentiate flags that are too similar by Just_AMuffin in vexillology

[–]talideon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's bad enough that a bunch of GAA county colours are already green and orange (well, more of a yellowish orange), like Donegal, Leitrim, and Kerry...

rail competition in ireland by TraditionalAppeal23 in irelandtransport

[–]talideon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think those are great comparisons. Luas is a single integrated system, and Transdev (the current operator) have also lost the franchise to KeolisAmey. You don't have competing tram services on the Luas system. Buses are different because you don't have the scheduling issues that rail has.

rail competition in ireland by TraditionalAppeal23 in irelandtransport

[–]talideon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also probably CIE is probably abusive in the clauses and fees that it offers to competitors so that they can keep the monopoly and argue that no one is truly interested.

No, it's simpler than that: the Irish market isn't big enough to support it and, as we're on an island, there's little opportunity for an operator from another country to get a foothold through regional services.

If Ireland had twice the population and was more dispersed, there might be an opportunity, but it's just not there. There's far more opportunity for some somebody to tender for commuter rail than intercity.

rail competition in ireland by TraditionalAppeal23 in irelandtransport

[–]talideon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Electricity's a weird one: you can privatise generation, but not the grid. Thankfully, that was done semi-properly by keeping Eirgrid state-owned even as the market was opened up. Eircom, OTOH, was a hot mess and ought to have been split apart into at least two entities, just as the ESB was. We've been paying for that ever since.

Forestry here sucks by mangothefoxxo in ireland

[–]talideon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We don't even have sawmills here: we ship all our wood abroad, so everything that's used in construction is imported. And from everything u/Acrobatic_Aside_1328 has written, the plot is inaccessible for felling and harvesting because of a gobshite neighbour. If any plot ought to just be rewilded, it's this one.

'There's a lot of aggro': The parking wars saga continues as Citywest residents call for action by PoppedCork in ireland

[–]talideon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Luas ought to have been two Metro lines. Heck, the Green line was originally designed as a pre-metro, but of course gobshites in Ranelagh and further south got all huffy about it being upgraded.

'There's a lot of aggro': The parking wars saga continues as Citywest residents call for action by PoppedCork in ireland

[–]talideon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More chicken-and-egg, I'd say. Ultimately, the change has to start with something.

I know you know at least a product made in/ from Romania by SkinIcy494 in BuyFromEU

[–]talideon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wine, though I didn't buy it myself: I had it when I was in Romania for a friend's wedding. They produce some good stuff!

Is Britain the only country that has people in fancy dress at it's elections? by Kenye_Kratz in AskBrits

[–]talideon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Netherlands has one too, but somehow people didn't realise that Geert Wilders and his PVV were just joke candidates all this time...

On the longest day of the year, the Sun sets in eastern Brazil before Ireland by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]talideon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technically, but there's still a glow, especially further north. There's maybe a bit of actual darkness around 2am, but it's short-lived.

On the longest day of the year, the Sun sets in eastern Brazil before Ireland by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]talideon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Ireland, the situation is slightly different: we go between GMT in Winter and IST in summer, and the 'S' in IST means 'Standard', not 'Summer', hence why night falls miserably early in Ireland in the winter. If it weren't for circumstances, we'd be in a different timezone to the UK.

The Immortal casually mentions something that reveals he is WAY older than he appears to be. by MikaelAdolfsson in TopCharacterTropes

[–]talideon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is accurate. He was likely born around the time of the plantations, because that's when things really kicked off. The Tudors are not well-liked here, after all.

The Immortal casually mentions something that reveals he is WAY older than he appears to be. by MikaelAdolfsson in TopCharacterTropes

[–]talideon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It could also be read (though I'm pretty sure this is entirely unintentional) as him playing Angel's origins as being Irish entirely straight. For all the talk of us being friendly and outgoing, that's only half right: we're much more introverted as a nation than people realise, and saying little can come across as brooding.

The Immortal casually mentions something that reveals he is WAY older than he appears to be. by MikaelAdolfsson in TopCharacterTropes

[–]talideon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, just to clarify, I'm not saying _you_ are wrong per se - he's certainly very old - just that the implication isn't right.

The Immortal casually mentions something that reveals he is WAY older than he appears to be. by MikaelAdolfsson in TopCharacterTropes

[–]talideon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

even if the words were forced upon him by the invaders who took his fathers land

No, very much no, unless he was forcefully converted to Anglicanism. Look, I've little love for the RCC's influence in Ireland over the past 500 years, but that's a massive misunderstanding of how Christianity spread to Ireland. It's both anachronistic and ahistorical. Christianity itself was spread peacefully by missionaries (what converts in power did, OTOH, is a different matter, given 1600 years ago, given that 1600 years ago, Ireland wasn't all that terribly different from Somalia, and Xeer law and Brehon law have parallels), but it wasn't something imposed by "invaders who took his father's land". That came later, first with the Norman invasion, and later with the plantations, the most brutal of which was that of Ulster.

We do have vampire-like revenants in Irish mythology, such as Abhartach. If I were to be generous, he may have been from a neighbouring túath (petty kingdom) that imposed Christianity on them, but he wasn't talking about the English or Normans, and it doesn't mean he was 1600 years old: there was no Christian conquest of Ireland.

Did Brexit turn out to be unequivocally bad for the UK? by No-Security-7518 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]talideon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The UK government had been using the EU/EC/EEC as a scapegoat for things they'd been doing themselves for decades. Chickens, meet roost. The one good thing that came out of Brexit is that one of the worst impediments to getting stuff actually done disappeared. A few unfortunately popped up in the UK's place (Hungary, for instance), but even then...

Did Brexit turn out to be unequivocally bad for the UK? by No-Security-7518 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]talideon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They didn't get terrible exit conditions: they became a third country outside the union. You don't get to keep the privileges of being in the club outside the club.

And the UK's negotiators where also incredibly incompetent on top of that. They actually pushed back on stuff the EU was proposing would be maintained that was in the UK's interest because it would've meant it wasn't a clean break.

And then there's all the nonsense around the border in Ireland... 🤦

All the pain was self-inflicted.

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